Jon and Laurie Haughton met at Round Table Pizza on University Avenue in 1966. It wasn't long before they fell in love, got married and dreamed of having a family. In 1982, their daughter was born -- the first American test-tube baby.
Samantha Steel, now a senior at Maria Carrillo High School in Santa Rosa, Calif., has grown into a budding fashion model with a love of travel and a part-time job at a juice bar. Last spring she spent two months on the runways and in photo studios in Tokyo. "I want to see the world," she says. "I really get that adventuresome side from my parents."
Samantha was born in England, where Jon, MS '68, and Laurie were living while Jon studied for a degree in veterinary medicine at Cambridge and Laurie attended London's Royal College of Music. The couple joined in the earliest tests of in vitro reproductive technology. Samantha was the world's fourth child conceived outside the womb. "She knows that her parents went to great lengths to have her, and it pleases her," Laurie says. "I know it does."
